Symbols
The time of the disease from seizure to termination.
What is 30 minutes?
The man who's name derives from prosperous.
Who is Prince Prospero?
A symbol for hiding from the plague.
What are the masks, being walled in, the masquerade?
The room that symbolized the end for everyone.
What is the black & scarlet (last) room?
Sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body...
What are the symptoms of the Red Death?
The number of apartments?
A symbol for trying to escape the outside world.
What is the masquerade, dreams, music?
"...like a thief in the night."
What is the simile that describes the how the Red Death came and took everyone?
When does the Red Death overcome all?
What is on the twelfth chime at midnight?
High class people who are hiding - using the vocabulary word from the text.
Who are the revelers?
The symbol for social barrier between rich and poor.
What is the wall around Prospero's abbey?
Habiliments of the grave.
What is clothing of the grave - the way the masked visitor was dressed.
The main message of the story.
What is you can not escape death and/or you cannot escape conflict?
The symbol for the progression of life and/or sins we may face throughout life.
What is each of the rooms?
"...the Prince Prospero, maddening with rage and the shame of his own momentary cowardice, rushed hurriedly through the six chambers..."
What is the first sign that Prince Prospero has the Red Death?
Blue, Purple, Green, Orange, White, Violet, Scarlet/Black
What is the order of the seven rooms?